Robin Fleming

Robin Fleming is an American medievalist and a professor of history at Boston College. She is the president of the Medieval Academy of America and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She has written several books focusing on the people of Roman Britain and early medieval Britain, using both archaeological evidence and written records.

Early life and education
Fleming received her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1977 and 1984.

Career and honors
She has received the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2009–2010), a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–2003), a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (2002), a Fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard (1993–94), and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1986–89).

She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Royal Historical Society, the London Society of Antiquaries, and the Medieval Academy of America.

In 2022, she gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford on "Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People".

She is serving as the president of the Medieval Academy of America in 2023-2024.

Selected papers

 * Robin Fleming, "Monastic Lands and England's Defence in the Viking Age", The English Historical Review 100:395:247–265 (April 1985)